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Description: | Ms diary (35pp, with word processed transcription, 13pp) written by him during his service with V48 Heavy Mortar Battery, RA (June - September 1916) covering his trench work on the Somme, heavy bombardments, muddy trench conditions, good notes on the opening of the Somme offensive, the terrible conditions at Albert with unburied dead lying about, the action at Ovillers, his wounding while mounting a gun and eventual evacuation to England and No.6 General Hospital (September 1916).
Cataloguer PJB | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Artillery British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Masters, L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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